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Award-winning children's book author Jack Gantos, known for his Joey Pigza and Jack Henry series, was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania..
A popular and prolific author of books for readers ranging from the early primary grades through adults, Jack Gantos is considered both a gifted humorist and an.
Jack Gantos
American author of children's books
Jack Gantos (born July 2, ) is an American author of children's books. He is best known for the fictional characters Rotten Ralph and Joey Pigza.
Rotten Ralph is a cat who stars in twenty picture books written by Gantos and illustrated by Nicole Rubel from to Joey Pigza is a boy with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), featured in five novels from to
Gantos won the Newbery Medal from the American Library Association (ALA), recognizing Dead End in Norvelt as the previous year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children".[1]Dead End also won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction[2] and made the Guardian Prize longlist in Britain.[3]
His memoir Hole in My Life was a runner up Honor Book for the ALA Printz Award and Sibert Medal.
Previously Gantos was a finalist for the U.S. National Book Award[4] and a finalist for the Newbery Medal for
